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User’s Guide SYSTRAN 5.0 17
SYSTRAN Dictionary Manager (SDM)
• SYSTRAN Personal
• SYSTRAN Office Translator
• SYSTRAN Professional Standard
• SYSTRAN Professional Premium
SYSTRAN Dictionary Manager (SDM) lets you build, create, and maintain User
Dictionaries (UDs), Translation Memories (TMs), and Normalization Dictionaries
(NDs). These dictionaries are used in other SYSTRAN 5.0 applications to customize
your translations.
SDM comes in three versions:
• A Basic version that SYSTRAN Personal and SYSTRAN Office Translator
support.
• An Advanced version that SYSTRAN Professional Standard supports.
• An Expert version that SYSTRAN Professional Premium supports.
Table 6 shows the features supported by the Basic, Advanced, and Expert versions of
SDM. For more information, see Using SYSTRAN Dictionary Manager (SDM) on
page 113.
Table 6: SDM Features
Feature Description Basic Advanced Expert
Improved Intuitive
Coding™
Provides superior analysis of
plain entries (those without
linguistic clues). Also supports
special characters and provides
expert dictionary coding
capabilities (through clues only,
no Wizard).
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Coding confidence
indicator
Software automatically analyzes
and codes an entry. Low
confidence dies not mean the
entry is incorrect, but that it is
more likely to be incorrect than
one with higher confidence.
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Print dictionaries Lets you print a hard copy of the
dictionaries
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UD format Converts User Dictionaries from
SYSTRAN version 4 format to
version 5 format.
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Improved UD search
capabilities
Lets you search local
dictionaries, as well as search,
browse, and download
SYSTRAN Online User
Dictionaries.
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